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Elsewhere, however, the situation remained cool. Unexpectedly, Assad decided to give the 1,200-man U.N. Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights a full six-month extension. Discussing this surprising move, an Egyptian diplomat suggested that the Syrian ruler "had to renew for six months because he had no Suez Canal to reopen." He was referring to the fact that Sadat, while limiting the U.N. mission in Sinai to three more months to keep pressure on for peace talks, had also decided to reopen the canal next week to emphasize his desire for a settlement. Thus, Assad...
Ford knew that in foreign ministries around Asia, a triumphant and emboldened Hanoi is certain to make its influence felt most immediately. Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, figurehead ruler of the Khmer Rouge insurgents who now control his country, made that point in its most extreme form when he boasted last week: "The U.S. won't be able to hold on to Taiwan forever; the same goes for South Korea. In Thailand the people will also rise. How long will it take? Not very long." As if in reply, Ford said: "These events, tragic as they are, portend neither...
Foolish Pleasure was more than normal in that one, tying Bold Ruler's longstanding record time of 1:48 4/5 for the nine furlongs. Just as important, however, was the Duck's vault into stardom, as he was just a head behind when the two went under the finish wire...
...KAFKA's short stories, an explorer arrives in a small, poor, and remote country, garrisoned by soldiers who wear uniforms that are much too hot but that serve as reminders of a faraway home. The ruler of this country has invented an ingenious method of punishment, a sort of harrow that cuts the text of a broken law into the lawbreaker's flesh. The script is so intricate that it takes a full twelve hours before the lawbreaker is dead...
...generalissimo, in severely declining health, did not even appear in public during the final two years of his life. But until the end, Chiang held the title of President of the Republic of China, insisting that he was the sole legitimate ruler of the entire country. Even after Taiwan's expulsion from the U.N. in 1971, Chiang rejected all attempts at compromise. As long as he was alive, recovery of the mainland stood, in his words, as "the inalterable national purpose." As the world embarked on the quest for a new relationship with his enemy in Peking, Chiang never...